The Vampire's Praetor: Chapter 1.2 A World Unknown
The Vampire's Praetor
AGE RATING: Age 15+
Disclaimer Note: This is purely a fanfiction depicting characters from a project developed by an author of his own private ideas. The author of this written fan fiction DOES NOT, repeat DOES NOT claim Vampire Knight as one of its works and does not associate with Viz Media, Shojo Beat, Hakusensha, and all others contributing to the work of Vampire Knight.
However he DOES claim all characters associated with "Tiamat Visual" as HIS OWN creation, this includes the following: Merc Venatir
P.S. I tried my best, please take this seriously and be mature about it!
P.S.S. reading this chapter may require some knowledge of Vampire Knight
This chapter follows Yuuki's path during and after Merc's chase.
... Snow... I look at my hands as snow slowly melts on them...
"...this is very familiar..." I mutter lowly looking around, watching for the vampire who attacked me but the atmosphere only remains peaceful around me
I looked up into the dark sky as the snow continued falling.
I eyes followed one snow flake as it floated down landing on my hand.
As the snow flake melted, I glanced at my hands once again.
Oddly enough, I found that I was wearing the Cross Academy Uniform, and in my hand my a means to defend myself: The Artemis Rod.
My eyes glided from my hand to the uniform on my body, but soon my eyes glanced at the familiar environment that surrounded me.
the snowy blizzard, the dark atmosphere... I remember it well...
This spot is the place when Kaname saved me, it's also the place I was first...
I immediately froze sensing a dark presence behind me.
I slowly turned around to look in the direction of a dark cloud.
The cloud hovered for a moment, but immediately took the form of a human being.
This vampire was different, although it took the form of a human it had no humanistic features.
I take a small step back and glare at the Vampire with a determined and equal look (well... to the best of my ability.).
I'm not the same young girl this time, I was now ready to fight this Vampire.
I grasp the Artemis Rod and point the lethal tip towards the dark figure.
Within an instant it dashes towards me.
I throw the rod down aiming to hit the figure's head.
As if it didn't care, it ran straight into the Artemis Rod, it's head hitting the weapon straight between the eyes
"I hit him!" I say with a smile on my face but... my slight grin turns to dreaded fear.
The dark figure was not affected at all!
It grasped the front tip of the Artemis Rod with its bare hands
"Th-This.. isn't a vampire!" I say to myself as I try to pull my weapon back.
"L... LET GO!" I yelled out as I continued tugging on my weapon, but his grip was too strong.
The being then tries to reach for me.
the close its hand came to me the more I could see its hand was enveloped in red aura.
I continued to tug on my weapon, but I couldn't to pull my weapon free.
It left me with no choice, I had to leave my weapon in the being's hands before it could even touch me.
I released the Artemis Rod and jumped back a couple times just to get a few feet away from it.
A safe distance away, I observed it's movements; it grasped the Artemis Rod tightly.
It was definitely not a Vampire since it was able to hold my weapon.
The more I observed its movements the more I noticed it really had a face.
Teeth deadly sharp, not just its fangs but all its teeth as if they were sharpened to tear flesh off bone.
Another thing I noticed... Those eyes... they did not glow with the thirst of blood.. They glow with pure evil... An ominous neon red glow of his eyes... It's as if the devil himself was staring at me.
"What kind of monster is this!?" I ask myself in a slightly panicked state as I watched it toss the Artemis Rod aside.
The being stood silent. It appears to just stand there.
After what seemed like an eternity I speak out, "Are you going to do anything?" in an effort to try to get a conversation out of it.
I waited for a few moments, but all is silent. The being doesn't move an inch but just stared at me.
The uncomfortable silence is broken as it whispered just two simple words: "Auric Vision..."
What does that mean?
What is "Auric Vision"?
I continue to stay my guard against the dark being, then I quickly blink.
Upon opening my eyes I quickly realize, I was staring into it's demonic eyes, the being's hand shot towards me grasping my neck.
But... How?... It was a couple feet away.
It grasps my neck, and lifts me in the air, tightening its grip.
I was really scared, I try squeezing its arm to try to get it to release me.
My breath feels short, and soon many thoughts began whirling around in my head.
What is this monster going to do with me? I was scared...
Where is everyone?... Headmaster... Zero... Kaname...
After holding me a few more seconds it drops me to the snow covered ground, but it apparently wasn't done with me yet.
It kneels down, covering my mouth with its hand. It then pushes against the center of my chest with its other hand.
What follows is much worse than my encounter with the vampire from my past.
I feel burning, searing pain in my chest, as if I was suffering a heart attack.
What is it doing to me? I try to scream but his hand prevents me from doing so, I try to push the being off, but his weight and strength are too much for me.
The extreme pain does not subside, and after a minute; which seems to last an eternity it pulls something from my chest... a glowing orb...
My will to resist immediately fades.
I felt used, my arms fall to the ground and laid limp, as if they lie dead.
my eyes glaze over from the pain of the being's torture.
It stands up levitating the orb in its palm.
I try to look at the orb, but I can't even turn my head.
All I can make out, is a faint glowing blue aura.
I try to sit up... but... I couldn't move my body either.
"what's happening to my body?"
I lay fully awake but my eyesight was a little hazy.
I try once again to move my body, but my limbs won't budge... Its as if my body is... Well... Dead...
I stare into the blank, dense forest as snow continues to fall.
I come to the conclusion: I was dreaming...
I know I was...
In a minute I would wake up completely fine...
... Any minute... Any minute now...
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...What's going on?
Is this real? why am I not waking up?
I feel the being's gaze looking upon my body, even though it was completely out of my view.
It still held my orb as if it is the holy grail.
I was truly scared now, I can't wake up, I can't move, I lay utterly helpless.
The sounds around me grow silent, as the dark being begins walking away with my orb.
"What am I to do?" I think frantically, "Am I to be trapped in this state forever?".
My eyes slowly close, "...Please..." My eyesight began darkening, "Someone... help me..."
A single tear rolled down my cheek as began to realize my doomed fate, but to my surprise the being drops my orb right in front of my eyes.
The dark being retreated as if it was scared of something.
Just then a intense bright blue light radiated out of my view, chasing the dark being off.
I was still laying on the ground, my dead gaze looking upon the orb.
I try again to move, reaching for the orb, but my body is still in a dead-like state.
I thought to myself, now more confused than scared, "Why did it drop my orb?..."
Out of my view the bright radiant light began shining from above me.
It was blinding, but then... I hear a calming voice.
"Now... is not the time." the voice begins speaking in my head.
A hand, enveloped in a white aura, grasps my orb, picking it up.
For a moment I lay there, staring into the emptiness of the snow covered forest.
I felt overcoming peace, and the pain of the being's torture slowly subsides.
My muscles begin moving and I quickly sit up looking for whatever had come to my rescue.
To my surprise there was no one around.
Even the dark being is gone, the source of the white hand is also gone as well.
I looked down at my chest however and noticed the same faint glow of the orb radiating around the center of my chest, but within a few seconds it faded.
"What's going on?" I stand up, deathly confused looking for answers to my confusion.
Then to my surprise, I find the Artemis Rod back in my hands.
"Wait... How did?" I shake my head, and look around desperately, trying to find answers to my confusion.
As I look around for answers or hints, the forest landscape begins radiating brightly around me, and soon I was enveloped in bright light.
As soon as the light waned off, I slowly open my eyes seeing a white open plain of nothingness
"Where am I now?" I say to myself as I look around.
I t doesn't take long for something to happen however.
Just above me hover a very radiant and bright blue light.
I stared in to the ease of the bright light.
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"Your Auric Core was damaged..." says a disembodied voice in my head.
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"I don't have a lot of time so listen closely..." Desperate for answers I close my eyes and begin to listen to its words.
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"this may be a dream, but all that has happened is very real."
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"When you wake up you may feel some searing pain, but that will fade in very short time..."
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"I know you have many questions, but all will be answered, in the future..."
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"The Gateway to A World Unknown is soon opening, Yuuki..."
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"Your decisions, from here on out, will affect your fate..."
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"Take my words to heart... "Save the soul that is fated to meet you..." This the key to the gateway..."
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"... And in return... You and this grateful soul together, will restore hope to a dying race..."
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"Now... Depart... This realm, and its truths are not ready to be revealed to you... Leave this place now...
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"Wake up!..."
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"Oh! and good luck, your class instructor is really upset, and you're pretty much the laughing stock of the class right now!"
"Wait! What!?" I quickly open my eyes in response to The Light's last words, but I see nothing but bright light...
-Cross Academy-
"Should we draw on her face?"
"No, come on! That's too easy!"
"Drop a textbook... that'll be a laugh."
"Ah man! she's waking up!"
I hear many voices talking as I begin to wake up from the strange dream.
As soon as I begin moving, I beginning coughing and trying to catch my breath as if I was truly suffocating.
"Everyone hold on! give her some room!"
I lift my head slowly, regaining my eyesight.
I then slowly sit up in my seat.
"Yuuki?" Yori-Chan was looking at me with a worried look, "Are you okay?"
I lie to Yori-chan so she won't worry.
The truth is, I was still in pain.
The pain in my heart still lingers and my hand wanders to my chest slowly, grasping the area where I felt searing pain.
I begin recalling what has happened in the dream: I was attacked but... by what? and... Who came to my rescue?
What lingers in my mind even more, is "The Light's" final words, "Save the soul that is fated to meet you..."
"Save the soul that is fated to meet you..." I kept its final words in my mind...
However, it was only a dream, there's no way it could... wait... that... wasn't the last thing The Light said... "
"Oh! and good luck your class instructor is really upset, and you're pretty much the laughing stock of the class right now!"
I look slowly around the class, most of them seem ready to prank and use me as a joke.
They were all being kept away by Sayori.
The instructor gave me a very angry, but worried look.
"Yuki, I'm beginning to think your prefect duties, are a little too much for you and Zero"
I look to Zero who is also asleep, and wondered if he saw anything I did.
"Perhaps the Head Master should give you two a little time off."
I shake my head immediately at his words, "No! Its alright we can do it!"
The instructor shakes his head in reply, "Save it... stay after class..."
"... I knew it..." my head falls gently back to the desk.
... But... one thing I couldn't get out of my head was the dream, and those final words...
-The day fades-
It's night time... It's their time...
As the Disciplinary Committee, we ensure the true secret of the Night-Class is never revealed.
"You know there hasn't been much activity from either the night or day class students." I say to Zero turning to look at him the same time.
"That doesn't mean a thing..." he speaks out looking up at the crescent moon settle in the starry night sky.
"Sooner or later "they" will do something to break this peaceful silence..." he finishes, as he walks off to patrol another area.
I turn looking up at the same crescent moon as Zero.
"Save the soul that is fated to meet you..." These words echo in my mind.
I shake my head to clear it; then I begin my patrol of the woods.
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A few hours pass, and I meet with Zero on the edge of the Academy.
It was a clean patrol, the day class stayed inside their dorms (or managed to hide from us), and the Night-class behaved exceptionally well, like always.
It seems like it'll be easy throughout the night, so we decide to relax for a moment, but something cut our little break short.
A "gunshot" echos through the night.
It was just one... then the echo is followed by multiple shots.
The sound of the gunshots were originating from behind the School building.
With determined looks, Zero and I rush to the back of the school building.
When we arrive, we're taken by surprise, several level E Vampires continued attacking a lonely Human boy.
The boy looks like he lie in bad shape, but is still alive.
He fought off the vampires with a simple handgun.
Zero pulls out his Bloody Rose Handgun, taking aim at a Vampire with a missing arm, Immediately pulling the trigger.
The Vampire implodes into dust.
The Bloody Rose Insignia lingers where the Vampire once hovered.
I see a second vampire making an attempt to attack the young boy.
I run to protect him, pulling out the Artemis Rod and extending it in my hand.
With the lethal tip of my weapon, I knock the attacker aside, temporarily stunning it.
I retreat and back up to protect the young boy, holding my weapon ready, in case there were any others that want to attack the him.
I see Zero walk up to the stunned vampire shooting it in the head with Bloody Rose, therefore terminating it.
I continue holding my stance as Zero approaches me.
Silence settles on us as I look down at the boy.
His eyes were hidden behind his bangs, his stomach was gashed open, his right arm mutilated by his attackers.
Small drops of blood drips from his mouth, his left arm lies limp, but he grasps a simple handgun tightly.
I kneel down quickly to help him turning my head towards Zero.
"Zero!" "Get Head Master Cross! This person is still breathing, but he's hemorrhaging badly."
"That's not what I'm worried about Yuuki..." he said nodding as he ran off to get help.
Zero spoke the truth, the amount of blood the boy has lost will definitely get the attention of the Night-Class.
this is serious, I have to do my best to help him and get him to safety.
I took my Cross Academy blazer off and kneel down to try and stop his bleeding... But... He reacted to me as a threat, he pulls his gun on me...
I stared down the barrel of his handgun as it was pointed at my head.
I see his eyes from behind his bangs... they are dark blue, like the night sky... but most of all, they are innocent...
I still fear for my life, his handgun is still pointed at my head...
"...W-wait..." I mutter lowly, pleading for my life. "Please... I'm not a..." In that instant he shifts the gun to the left and fires into the dark forest.
I thought I was dead, but each one of the shots arew directed to something behind me.
I slowly turn my head to see a vampire faling, dissipating to dust.
"Be careful... You missed one..." he says. I slowly turned my head and see the dissipated remains of the homicidal vampire flying into the wind...
"Remember... "Save the soul that is fated to meet you..." I hear the voice as I shake my head, regaining myself. I turn to look at the boy.
(From here Yuuki has a choice. Save the Young Man, or choose to leave him there to die, the later choice will begin the Vampire Knight Story, however, should she choose to save his life this will trigger The Vampire's Praetor Story)
(For those who chose to leave him there to die, Screw you... JK... but wait til the end of the story for alternate endings...)
"Thank you..." those are the only words that came out of my mouth.
"...oh ..." Before I could finish the hand holding his gun goes limp, releasing his weapon.
"...Was he?..." I lift his bangs to see his face.
to my relief he was still breathing.
... He is alive, but unconscious... and to my surprise he isn't as young as I had thought. He is roughly Zero's age, his hair, a dark night blue, like his eyes.
I take my blazer and press it against his bleeding stomach, in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
I then turn my attention to his mutilated arm.
"... Your arm... I don't think it can be saved..." I say to myself, as I take one of the sleeves from my blood coated blazer, and attempt to stop his right arm from bleeding
I take his hand and attempt to wrap the sleeve around his arm.
What happened next takes me by surprise, as I'm enveloped in bright light again.
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"Hello Yuuki..." I slowly open my eyes to hear a voice seeing nothing but a blank open plain.
I turn quickly to see a white silhouette facing me.
"Your voice..." I take one step forward, certain about one thing, "You're the Voice from the dream."
"You're correct..." it says in reply.
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"Yuuki, the choice you made opened a Gateway to an Unknown World, not just for you, but for those around you..."
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"Your life, as you know it, will change, as you stay with the young man you rescued..."
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"As of right now, and eventually; in the future, you will be the one to keep him alive..."
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"And in return, he will be the one to give his life to you..."
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"Remember, only you and him can restore hope to his dying "race"..."
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"Do you understand?"
I don't speak, I just nod lightly...
"Good... then let me give you a head start..."
A bright light illuminates my arms, but only for a short time, the light fades after a few seconds.
I look at my arms and hand, then back at the White Silhouette.
"We will meet again Yuuki..."
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Bright light envelopes me as I open my eyes again.
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As begin to come to I look at the young man, but... his arm... my hands...
My hands glow with the bright blue aura, the very same one that glowed from my orb, in the dream.
But that isn't all, his arm was enveloped in the same blue aura.
After a few seconds the aura on his arm fades and to my surprise, there are no wounds, the once mutilated arm is completely healed.
Even the blood stains on his jacket sleeve were gone.
the only trace of his arm injury are the huge slash marks on his jacket, revealing his skin.
None-the-less he is still in bad condition.
My blazer is now soaked with blood from his stomach.
He was running out of time.
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Fifteen minutes later, Head Master Kaien and Zero arrive.
Upon seeing the young man, Kaien approaches the boy, kneeling down to look at him.
"Yuuki! Zero!" The head master spoke to me, a serious look in his eyes, "Help me get your friend to my office."
"Yes Head Master!" I say, standing up to help him.
Eventually the Head Master has a grip on the young man.
He holds the young man in his arms, carrying him like a child as we make our way to the main office.
"This guy really stirred up the night-class." Zero says while keeping a vigilante eye out on our surroundings... "the strong stench of blood is literally killing them."
Kaien nods in agreement, as we make our way to the main office building.
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In no time, we reach the safety of the Head Master's office, I close the door, securing it behind us
The head master set the Young Man's body on a couch, soaking the canopy with the blood dripping from his stomach...
"Yuuki, did you have to use your blazer?" The head master askes noting that the blood stained cloth was my blazer.
"Well, I didn't have a choice!"
Kaien shakes his head, and focuses on taking the blood soaked clothing off, "Replacing you blazer is going to be hard..."
"Hey!" Zero interrupts abruptly, "Can we focus on the guy dying on your couch first?"
The Head Master redirects his attention to the young man and proceed to give him first aid...
-after another few hours, stitches, bandages-
I stand behind the head master, looking over his shoulders, seeing the young man's face.
His single injury was bandaged and patched up.
"Yuuki... " The head master says, "Its a good thing you acted when you did..."
"Whatever you did... it saved him..."
The Head Master turned his head to me, "What did you do?"
I couldn't answer...
I remembered the bright light, the White Being, the way I healed him...
I couldn't give a straight answer.
Was it because he wouldn't believe me... or was it because I had no way of describing what I did...
"Either way Yuuki..." the Head Master Continues... "He'll live..."
I sigh with relief knowing I saved his life... but in technical terms he saved me too...
The Head Master stood and spoke to me once again, "Can you watch him while I get some more medical supplies?"
"Of course."I respond.
I walk up to the Young Man, as the head master leaves to fetch more medical supplies.
I don't know what's going through my mind as I stare at him.
Something tells me that these past events won't be the last...
I slowly reach of his hand gently grasping it.
Soon a very faint blue glow radiated from our touch...
"What are you?" I say to myself as I continue to stare at him.
I've no idea what I've gotten into, but now know that by saving this young man, I have entered "His" world... "A World Unknown..."